Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (V.21-22 1908-1909) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...assistant professors, who teach sylviculture, working plans, geology, mineralogy, entomology, botany, forest law, political economy and forest statistics, surveying, forest engineering, and agriculture. The school is accommodated in spacious buildings, embracing residences for the staff and students, halls of study, recreation rooms, model rooms, museum, library, and chemical laboratory; and an area of 7500 acres of forest in the neighbourhood is under the control of the Director of the school as a field of practical instruction, as well as for purposes of experiment and research. In the German Empire there are eight superior State forest schools which are equipped on a like scale; and in nearly all countries of the European continent, schools of a similar kind are maintained for the training of officers for the Government forest service. A considerable portion of the Windsor Crown Forest is managed, for purposes of practical instruction, by the professor of forestry at the Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, near Windsor; while the Forest of Dean will, it is understood, shortly be brought under systematic management, and will thus also become available for instructional uses. But the students of the Forest Branch at Coopers Hill College still receive a considerable part of their practical training in State forests of France and Germany, which have been subjected to rational treatment for a long period of years. Forests used as the main practical training-ground for students are always placed under the control of the Director of the school. Speaking of the area that should be provided for instructional purposes in this country, M. Boppe says: --"This accessory forest must necessarily be incomplete at first, but would be...